Homeric Contexts : : Neoanalysis and the Interpretation of Oral Poetry / / ed. by Franco Montanari, Antonios Rengakos, Christos C. Tsagalis.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Classics and Near East Studies 2000-2014 (EN)
• MitwirkendeR: Alden, Maureen,; Bierl, Anton,; Burgess, Jonathan S.,; Cassio, A. C.,; Currie, Bruno,; Debiasi, Andrea,; Dué, Casey,; Finkelberg, Margalit,; Hirschberger, Martina,; Kelly, Adrian,; Kullmann, Wolfgang,; Levaniouk, Olga,; Marks, Jim,; Minchin, Elizabeth,; Montanari, Franco,; Muellner, Leonard,; Nagy, Gregory,; Petropoulos, Ioannis,; Pucci, Pietro,; Saïd, Suzanne,; Scodel, Ruth,; Torres, José B.,; Tsagalis, Christos,; West, Stephanie,; Yamagata, Naoko,
• HerausgeberIn: Montanari, Franco,; Rengakos, Antonios,; Tsagalis, Christos C.,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2012]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Series: Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes , 12
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (698 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Preface --; Contents --; Introduction. The Homeric Question Today --; Part I: Theoretical Issues --; Neoanalysis between Orality and Literacy: Some Remarks Concerning the Development of Greek Myths Including the Legend of the Capture of Troy --; Signs of Hero Cult in Homeric Poetry --; Oral Formulaic Theory and the Individual Poet --; Memory and Memories: Personal, Social, and Cultural Memory in the Poems of Homer --; Ἀρχοὺς αὖ νεῶν ἐρέω: A Programmatic Function of the Iliadic Catalogue of Ships --; Part II: Iliad --; The Despised Migrant (Il. 9.648 = 16.59) --; Orality, Fluid Textualization and Interweaving Themes. Some Remarks on the Doloneia: Magical Horses from Night to Light and Death to Life --; Maneuvers in the Dark of Night: Iliad 10 in the Twenty-First Century --; The Fate of Achilles in the Iliad --; Grieving Achilles --; The Mourning of Thetis: ‘Allusion’ and the Future in the Iliad --; Part III: Odyssey --; Belatedness in the Travels of Odyss --; The Telemachy and the Cyclic Nostoi --; Deauthorizing the Epic Cycle: Odysseus’ False Tale to Eumaeus (Od. 14.199 – 359) --; Animal Similes in Odyssey 22 --; Οὐ χρώμεϑα τοῖς ξενικοῖς ποιήμασιν: Questions about Evolution and Fluidity of the Odyssey --; Part IV: Language and Formulas --; Kypris, Kythereia and the Fifth Book of the Iliad --; Iterative and Syntactical Units: A Religious Gesture in the Iliad --; Epithets with Echoes: A Study on Formula-Narrative Interaction --; Part V: Homer and Beyond --; Homer ἀγωνιστής in Chalcis --; Hesiod and the Epic Cycle --; The Writing Down of the Oral Thebaid that Homer Knew: In the Footsteps of Wolfgang Kullmann --; Some Reflections on Alpamysh --; The Iliad, Gilgamesh, and Neoanalysis --; Bibliography --; List of Contributors --; Indices
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783110272017; 9783110621099; 9783110238570; 9783110636178; 9783110288995; 9783110293838; 9783110288964
• ISSN: 1868-4785
• DOI: 10.1515/9783110272017
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Franco Montanari, Antonios Rengakos, Christos C. Tsagalis.

This volume aims at offering a critical reassessment of the progress made in Homeric research in recent years, focussing on its two main trends, Neonalysis and Oral Theory. Interpreting Homer in the 21st century asks for a holistic approach that allows us to reconsider some of our methodological tools and preconceptions concerning what we call Homeric poetry. The neoanalytical and oral 'booms', which have to a large extent influenced the way we see Homer today, may be re-evaluated if we are willing to endorse a more flexible approach to certain scholarly taboos pertaining to these two schools of interpretation. Song-traditions, formula, performance, multiformity on the one hand, and Motivforschung, Epic Cycle on the other, may not be so incompatible as we often tend to think.